Pleco with a sore mouth

[chocogirl0]

Our pleco 'Spike' has recently been moved to a new tank, checked with LFS on water levels and all was fine so we put Spike in his new home.

Since putting him in, a few days later the water turned cloudy - have read posts in this forum and beleive it could be Bacterial bloom? so will do weekly changes of 25%, next one is due tomorrow.

Now i have noticed that when Spike is sucking the glass, he has 5 areas on the inside of his mouth which are white - and have never been there before - could it be a fungus?

We have changed from gravel to sand - did ask LFS if this was ok for our fish, and was told 'yes' - but could this be the reason.

Any ideas about what i should do, as not as experienced as many of you are at this great forum.

Thanking you in advance for any help

 

[WILDER]

Does it sound like this.
http/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/hdcolumn.htm

 

[chocogirl0]

Thank you, could well be, have not seen anything on his fins or body, but will keep a very close eye.

So next step will be to take another water sample to LFS armed with a print out of that thread you have provided tomorrow.

Thanks again

 

[WILDER]

Do some water changes and keep adding the correct amount of med back, to the water removed, good luck.

 

[chocogirl0]

thanks, fingers crossed

 

[WILDER]

Good luck, mouth fungus is quite easy to cure, so don't worry to much, you can heal it in good water quality.